BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – A young man is nursing a wound to his back following a drive-by shooting this morning (May 30) in Newtown.
Information reaching this publication states that Adrian ‘Mac 1’ Stringette of Neverson Street East, Newtown was shot shortly before 9:00 a.m. while at a public pipe at the junction of James Street and Manchester Avenue in Newtown.
According to eyewitness account, while the 20-year-old was at the public pipe, a white car drove by and someone from within fired three shots at him.
One of the bullets struck him in the lower back but he escaped the gunman’s wrath by jumping over the northern fence of a building at the junction of James Street and Manchester Avenue.
Eyewitnesses told this media house that the white car was travelling at a fast rate of speed when the shooting occurred and they were unable to see the registration number, because they too had taken cover.
They also said that Stringette, who hails from Bath Village, Nevis, exited the yard by jumping over the western fence and ran along James Street to get to his home.
A young mother who was preparing her son for school said she heard the sound of three shots being fired and saw a man running along James Street where she lives.
“I recognised that it was Mac 1 and he seemed delirious. The young man seemed very scared and was mumbling something about being shot. He was bleeding from the mouth and also from a hole in his lower back.
“I tried dialing 911 but was confused because that was the first time I had seen someone shot. So a man came up and put him in his car and took him to the hospital. However, not only I was shaken by this incident, but also my four-year-old son who is traumatised. My son also saw the bullet hole in Mac 1 back and he started crying. He told me that he is afraid that somebody would shoot him and he was not leaving the house to go to school.
“I had to leave my home to pay a bill and decided to take my son along with me, but he said that he was not going on the road because gunmen were there. He was even afraid to be in the house by himself; so I had to get his father to remain there with him while I tend to my business. I am earnestly pleading to the young men in St. Kitts to put aside the guns and other life-taking weapons and settle their differences amicably. We can no longer take this behaviour…let peace reign in our dear country,” the young mother said.
The incident was reported at the Basseterre Police Station. Police officers and members of the Defence Force visited the scene and indicated that investigations are ongoing.
